I know I’ve been posting less, but I’m finding as my kids are getting a little older, I’m *doing* more! When I started sage, I considered it a repository of all the links to projects I wanted to do with my oldest son and green things to do around the house or make for dinner… someday. It was hard to imagine a time when I could do any of those things again.

Now the little boys are 8.5 months old (eek!), I’m 2 months into my new job/new nanny schedule, and into that nesting time of the year when you realize you’ll be bounded by your house for the foreseeable future so you ought to declutter a little, and somehow it’s all actually happening!

Friday, I had three babies napping and an older kid immersed in his Legos so I put the last of our orchard apples on the stove for a final batch of sauce, the bones from our rotisserie chicken (they’re $5.99 at our Whole Foods on Tuesdays, so I buy one each week and get 2+ meals out of it) into another pot to make stock, and a 2 pound container of baby bellas into the slow cooker for cream of mushroom soup. I’ve got my meals planned out for the next three weeks, so the stock is ready for Chicken Tortilla Soup tonight. Yum! I organized our pantry cabinet, too. It was a day of many accomplishments.

Saturday, we had 4 of the families on our block for a potluck vegetarian brunch and we also were going to a potluck Havdalah dinner, so I made two large mac and cheeses from a recipe that doubles exceedingly well. For the first time in my adult life, I didn’t get into a total CHAOS spell before our company came. I was very proud of myself.

Sunday, we caught up on laundry and picked up a new (to us) dining room table since our old one barely fit 6 people and their plates and, well, we’re 6 people every day now. And we crammed a few pounds of baby lima beans into the sleeves of a sweater with a busted zipper and my big boy sat at the piano hammering out a happy song about upcycling, making “door sausages“, and loving his momma. Joy!